From the Files

Gina Borromeo probes love and death in an ancient Greek alabastron

Judith Tannenbaum reencounters a series of photographs of two women dancing

Artists on Art

Christopher K. Ho and Troy Richards open up the Book of Ours

Matt Garza meditates on an untitled portrait of a same-sex couple

Double Takes

MariNaomi and Wai Yee Chiong get cozy with Kunisada’s Bed of Awakening: Nocturnal Pillow Talk

Diane Seuss and Angela Dufresne bond with Lydia (1776)

Laurie Simmons and Marisa Angell Brown embrace the complications of Eleanor, Chicago, 1949

Nafis White and Ahmari Benton join forces over Hair Necklace 4 (Chain)

Portfolio

Familiar connections and passionate flings from across the museum’s collection

Object Lessons

Stephen Truax lovingly documents the lineage of recent queer figurative painting in Any distance between us

Vanessa and Carl Jennings sing a little lullaby to a Kiowa cradleboard

Dominic Molon spends time with Annika von Hausswolff’s Where everything begins and ends #2

How To

Jessica Urick navigates conservation’s one-way intimacy

RISD Museum Interim Director
and Manual Editor-in-Chief: Sarah Ganz Blythe
Editor: Amy Pickworth
Art Director: Derek Schusterbauer
Graphic Designer: Brendan Campbell
Rights Manager: Sionan Guenther
Photographer: Erik Gould
Printer: GHP